MEASURING THE EMERGENCY SURGICAL CARE OF AUTO ACCIDENT PATIENTS

A series of 2,389 Emergency Department surgical admissions were assessed for quantitative indices of actual services rendered and time spent. Auto accident related patients were compared to other Emergency Department surgical patients. The average diagnostic index for auto accident patients was 48 units compared to 25 units for all patients. Their workload for Emergency Department personnel was twice the average for non-automobile accident patients, representing 15% of the total diagnostic services, 12% of the total therapeutic services, and 14% of the total overall services rendered during the period of study. These data confirmed that auto accident related patients are different from the average Emergency Department patients and are qualitatively treated differently from other surgical patients. /HSRI/

• Corporate Authors:

  American Association for Automotive Medicine

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• Authors:
  • Burney, R E
  • Robson, M C
• Conference:
  • 18th Annual Conference of the American Association for Automotive Medicine
  • Location: Toronto Ontario, Canada
  • Date: 1974-9-12 to 1974-9-14
• Publication Date: 1974

Media Info

• Features: Tables;
• Pagination: p. 208-213
• Serial:
  • Volume: 18

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Crash injury research; Disasters and emergency operations; Hazards and emergency operations; Injuries; Quantitative analysis; Surgery; Traffic crashes
• Uncontrolled Terms: Motor vehicle accidents; Quantifying
• Subject Areas: Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00081840
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Highway Safety Research Institute
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 8 1975 12:00AM